* Nick Hilliard <n...@foobar.org> [2014-04-22 15:33]: > On 22/04/2014 12:31, Henning Brauer wrote: > > it does NOT cover carp, not at all. > that is a political statement rather than a legal opinion. If you read the > patent, it's pretty obvious that when you have a group of carp-enabled > devices providing a stable gateway IP address, and these devices are > routing traffic received via the carp published address, this configuration > provides the same functionality that's described in the patent claims. > This hasn't been tested in court and neither of us is a lawyer and the > patent seems to have expired, so it's academic at this stage.
it is academic, indeed. I was involved with carp's creation, we did all the work to make sure it just avoids being covered by the patent. and that included getting legal advice. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services GmbH, AG Hamburg HRB 128289, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting
